Sometimes, the world of Internet video on demand looks down on the TV. After all, in the Internet, users have the choice of 50 to 120 thousands of items to watch, 1000 times more than on PayTV or 10 times more than in DVD rental. But, the internet video is still lacking fidelity. Here is how you should transcode if you …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
This Week in Twitter
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Push-Pull Tactics
1. Microsoft: we will equip our tablet PCs with pens so that one can precisely manupulate them. And, we don’t need to re-write our software. Apple: (quietly scheming) Google: uhm, what? Tables PCs? 2. Apple: Hey, we’ve made this amazing revolutionary device, and guess what, you don’t need a pen to use it, just use …
This Week in Twitter
How it feels to make money with Open Source: http://t.co/goxZ5L66 # Airbnb to Couchsurfing is what App Store to Open Source. # wondering who will be the first to write a Smart TV virus. A DDOS performed from milliards of TV sets is interesting. # underscore.js, jQuery and backbone.js are slowly making Smalltalk out of …
Visual Studio 11 RC UI
Visual Studio is an undisputed king of IDEs in the Microsoft ecosystem. There is virtually nothing even remotely comparable with it on the market. It is so good (for a mainstream product) that it is even used outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, for example in cross-platform game programming, or in embedded development. With already cool …
Facebook mobile app
The Facebook mobile app has average of 2 stars in the App Store with 23k ratings, and 3.6 stars in Play Store, including 631k of one-star ratings and 226k of 2-star ratings. There is an interesting break down here. I also don’t like the current Facebook mobile app. The usual discussion happening over and over …
0X0F
/* * @author: Maxim Fridental * @version: 1.0 * @description: Yet another nostalgic post. Handcrafted in HTML. * * TODO: stop whining. */ Today I’m facing the last 0x0f days of my life as software developer. # I have very strong and mixed feelings about that, because being # software developer is part of my …
This Week in Twitter
Cool, but the UI is too complicated and not immersive. @microsoft, now its your turn. RT @verge LG's Google TV sets http://t.co/CYdPa5E3 # Just posted a photo http://t.co/LwwexMFU # "Männer färben nicht, Männer tunen" – finde ich genial :) # Abstract words like time, movement, energy and life can't be pointed at? Well, I'm pointing: …
This Week in Twitter
RT @verge TV industry nervous about impact of apps on cable subscriptions http://t.co/LO2jfgQn # Powered by Twitter Tools
UX of Airport Security Check
What UX disciplines are involved in design of security checks? Interaction design: Developing clear and easy understandable sentences to be used in communication between security staff and passengers. Developing gestures for passengers not speaking any of the supported languages. Ergonomics: Ensuring that the metal detector gate width and the transport belt height are suitable for most passengers. …